Catalogue entry

Marché St. Honoré
Catalogue no. 530
1952
Paris, France
Oil on panel
12 3/4 x 15 in. (32.4 x 38.1 cm)
Signed, dated, inscribed lower right: "E W Dickinson / 1952 Paris"
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Notes
Painted in Paris, France, July 18 (journal), from window of Biala's apartment, "premier coup . . . my 1st landscape in my life in Paris." (journal). To FD, July 18, ". . . showing the roofs of the market & 9 hours - my 1st of Paris houses. It is a grey day but full polychrome, . . . worked so long on one house that, as time ran out, I wondered if I'd finish it. Right then, I recalled that I can draw, & finished it in 20 minutes. . . . (about 200 chimney-pots done in 3 or 4 minutes."
Exhibition History
1952 ASL
Art Students League, New York, Instructors Exhibition, 1952.
1953 PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1953, as "Street, Paris".
1954 American Academy & National Institute
American Academy & National Institute, New York, 1954.
1955 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1955.
1956 National Institute of Arts & Letters
American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members, Recipients of Honors, and Childe Hassam Fund Purchases, May 23–June 24, 1956.
1957–58 Cornell University
Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Ithica, Edwin Dickinson, Visiting Artist: An Exhibition of Paintings, 1912-1956, December 10, 1957–January 10, 1958.
1958 Cushman Gallery
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958, as "Market, Paris".
1959 Boston University Art Gallery
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959.
1961 James Graham & Sons
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
1961–63 MoMA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson, 1961–63. Traveled to: Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee, November 15, 1961; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, January 5, 1962; Chatham College, Pittsburgh, February 5, 1962; University of Texas, Austin, Texas, May 8, 1962; Art Center of La Jolla, La Jolla, California, June 22, 1962; Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 7, 1962; Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, October 15, 1962; Quincy Art Club, Quincy, Illinois, November 20, 1962; Telfer Academy of Arts and Science, Savannah, Georgia, January 7, 1963; Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, Delaware, February 15, 1963; University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, April 2, 1963; Madison Art Association, Madison, Wisconsin, May 8, 1963.
1965 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
1971 Wilmington DE
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, American Painting Since World War II, June 8–July 11, 1971.
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Marché St. Honoré, 1952 (Catalogue no. 530)
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Marché St. Honoré, 1952 (Catalogue no. 530)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=530 (accessed on July 15, 2026).